The project was started in September 2004 after LimeWire's distributor considered adding 'blocking' code in response to RIAA pressure. FrostWire has evolved to replace LimeWire's BitTorrent core for that of Vuze, the Azureus BitTorrent Engine, and ultimately to remove the LimeWire's Gnutella core to become a 100% BitTorrent client powered by the libtorrent library through FrostWire's jLibtorrent Java wrapper library since August 2014. In late 2005, concerned developers of LimeWire's open source community announced the start of a new project fork 'FrostWire' that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client. History įrostWire, a BitTorrent client (formerly a Gnutella client), is a collaborative, open-source project licensed under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.

In version 5, support for the Gnutella network was dropped entirely, and FrostWire became a BitTorrent-only client.

It was initially very similar to LimeWire in appearance and functionality, but over time developers added more features, including support for the BitTorrent protocol. FrostWire is a free and open-source BitTorrent client first released in September 2004, as a fork of LimeWire.

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